Bitcoin, in particular, shows us that scarcity is king in the crypto world.

There are many Tokens that are more scarce than BTC. What makes the difference is the consistency combined with the demand and marketing. Nothing is going to change in BTC supply and investors can plan for the long term. If tokenomics get changed every few years vs never, the fickle project is going to have less long term investors. What is to say that there won't be another proposal later to change the supply again. Eventually we will become no different than a central bank messing with the money supply.

Reducing all the rewards + treasury is not going go do much. If anything this is going to hinder the amount of funds DAO has to invest in the future while driving away more players. We need more players and using the inflation to get more players is what matter at the moment. Messing around with what was promised in the whitepaper is only going to distract us from the real goal of building a great product.